“It really showed my vulnerability,” said Brown, a belly dancer-turned-restaurateur. “It’s the best thing that ever happened to me. He completely opened my eyes and changed my life.”

If you want a glimpse of Ramsay, you’ll have to join the looky-loos on the sidewalk around noon. It’s a closed set, as they say in showbiz. The restaurant will reopen to the public when the rock star chef has left the building, which should be around 3 p.m.

He and the crew won’t hang around all week like last time, when Brown and her struggling eatery both got revamped. Ramsay changed the name from Grille to Gastropub for a new menu that didn’t include Southern dishes or belly dancers.

He bought Brown some new clothes and made her promise to stop belly dancing at work. He told her to ax her chef, Rocky, who later opened his own restaurant a few blocks away, serving fried green tomatoes and Southern classics.

Her worst infraction wasn’t prancing around half-naked or lack of control in the kitchen. It was her soup of the day naivete of serving the same soup every day that made Ramsay lower his voice in a rare polite moment to let her in on a little secret.

“Soup of the day means a daily change in soup,” he informed her in a whisper in the “Soup of the Day” clip that got about 1.2 million views on YouTube.

“Oh,” Brown says in the video. “Soup. Of. The. Day. A new soup every day. OK. … I thought soup of the day meant what is our soup for the day. I’m not that stupid, it’s just that’s what I understood that meant.”